Since Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in stream modes, such as counter (CTR), output feedback (OFB) and cipher feedback (CFB), can meet most industrial requirements, the range of applications for dedicated stream ciphers is decreasing. There are m...
The rise of modern cryptographic protocols such as Zero-Knowledge proofs and secure Multi-party Computation has led to an increased demand for a new class of symmetric primitives. Unlike traditional platforms such as servers, microcontrollers, and de...
On the Android platform, information leakage can use an application-layer privilege escalation attack composed of multi-app collusion. However, the detection effect of a single app that can construct privilege escalation attacks is not good. Furtherm...
Lightweight block ciphers are normally used in low-power resource-constrained environments, while providing reliable and sufficient security. Therefore, it is important to study the security and reliability of lightweight block ciphers. SKINNY is a n...
This paper is focused on some algebraic and combinatorial properties of a TMTO (Time–Memory Trade-Off) for a chosen plaintext attack against a cryptosystem with a perfect secrecy property. TMTO attacks aim to retrieve the preimage of a given on...
DBTRU was proposed by Thang and Binh in 2015. As a variant of NTRU, the integer polynomial ring is replaced by two binary truncated polynomial rings GF(2)[x]/(xn+1). DBTRU has some advantages over NTRU in terms of security and performance. In this pa...
Differential Computation Analysis (DCA) leverages memory traces to extract secret keys, bypassing countermeasures employed in white-box designs, such as encodings. Although researchers have made great efforts to enhance security against DCA, most sol...
Algebraic persistent fault analysis (APFA) combines algebraic analysis with persistent fault analysis, providing a novel approach for examining block cipher implementation security. Since its introduction, APFA has attracted considerable attention. T...
Ultra-large-scale matrix inversion has been applied as the fundamental operation of numerous domains, owing to the growth of big data and matrix applications. Using cryptography as an example, the solution of ultra-large-scale linear equations over f...
Using the algebraic state space representation, this paper studies the robust consensus of networked evolutionary games (NEGs) with attackers and forbidden profiles. Firstly, an algebraic form is established for NEGs with attackers and forbidden prof...
Algebraic persistent fault analysis (APFA), which combines algebraic analysis with persistent fault attacks, brings new challenges to the security of lightweight block ciphers and has received widespread attention since its introduction. Threshold Im...
To eliminate the limitations of signature randomization in known algebraic algorithms with a hidden group, the security of which is based on the computational complexity of solving large systems of power equations, a method for ensuring complete rand...
This paper concentrates on bipartite formation control for nonlinear leader-following multi-agent systems (MASs) with fixed and switching topologies under aperiodic Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Firstly, distributed control protocols are proposed...
As researches on the quantum computer have progressed immensely, interests in post-quantum cryptography have greatly increased. NTRU is one of the well-known algorithms due to its practical key sizes and fast performance along with the resistance aga...
This paper investigates the role of solvable and nilpotent Lie algebras in the domains of cryptography and steganography, emphasizing their potential in enhancing security protocols and covert communication methods. In the context of cryptography, we...
Proxy re-signature enables transitive authentication of digital identities across different domains and has significant application value in areas such as digital rights management, cross-domain certificate validation, and distributed system access c...
Substitution boxes (S-box) with strong and secure cryptographic properties are widely used for providing the key property of nonlinearity in block ciphers. This is critical to be resistant to a standard attack including linear and differential crypta...
This paper examines the flocking control issue of the Cucker–Smale model in the presence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and communication delays. In the setting of DoS attacks, the attacker only obstructs the information communication betwe...
IDEA is a classic symmetric encryption algorithm proposed in 1991 and widely used in many applications. However, there is little research into white-box IDEA. In traditional white-box implementations of existing block ciphers, S-boxes are always conv...
With the advent of communication networks, protecting data from security threats has become increasingly important. To address this issue, we present a new text encryption scheme that uses a combination of elliptic curve cryptography and max-plus alg...
The lack of an S-Box in some lightweight cryptography algorithms, like Speck and Tiny Encryption Algorithm, or the presence of a fixed S-Box in others, like Advanced Encryption Standard, makes them more vulnerable to attacks. This proposal presents a...
Entropy is a basic and important concept in information theory. It is also often used as a measure of the unpredictability of a cryptographic key in cryptography research areas. Ubiquitous computing (Ubi-comp) has emerged rapidly as an exciting new p...
Although cloud storage provides convenient data outsourcing services, an untrusted cloud server frequently threatens the integrity and security of the outsourced data. Therefore, it is extremely urgent to design security schemes allowing the users to...
The Data Encryption Standard Lightweight extension (DESL) is a lightweight block cipher which is very similar to DES, but unlike DES uses only a single S-box. This work demonstrates that this block cipher satisfies comparable algebraic properties to...
A substation is the portion of a power grid that forms a link between the cyber system and the physical system. Reliability evaluation of smart substations based on a time-varying probabilistic hybrid attack graph (TVPHAG) is studied in this paper. F...
Organised attacks on a computer system to test existing defences, i.e., penetration testing, have been used extensively to evaluate network security. However, penetration testing is a time-consuming process. Additionally, establishing a strategy that...
In the inference attacks studied in Quantitative Information Flow (QIF), the attacker typically tries to interfere with the system in the attempt to increase its leakage of secret information. The defender, on the other hand, typically tries to decre...
We use the HHL algorithm to retrieve a quantum state holding the algebraic normal form (ANF) of a Boolean function. Unlike the standard HHL applications, we do not describe the cipher as an exponentially big system of equations. Rather, we perform a...
This paper addresses the problem of achieving secure consensus control in multi-agent systems (MASs) operating on directed graphs under the challenges of input saturation and periodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The motivation behind this study...
Hardware implementations of cryptographic primitives require protection against physical attacks and supply chain threats. This raises the question of secure composability of different attack countermeasures, i.e., whether protecting a circuit agains...
Unmanned Aerial Swarms are attracting widespread interest in fields such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and agriculture. However, there is still a lack of effective recovery strategies and comprehensive performance metrics for UAV sw...
The rapid advancement of technology has led to the pervasive presence of electronic devices in our lives, enabling convenience and connectivity. Cryptography offers solutions, but vulnerabilities persist due to physical attacks like malware. This led...
Data security is one of the biggest concerns in the modern world due to advancements in technology, and cryptography ensures that the privacy, integrity, and authenticity of such information are safeguarded in today’s digitally connected world....
We consider the problem of calculation of the critical amplitudes at infinity by means of the self-similar continued root approximants. Region of applicability of the continued root approximants is extended from the determinate (convergent) problem w...
Today, safeguarding sensitive content through encryption is crucial. This work presents a hybrid cryptosystem for images that employs both asymmetric and symmetric encryption. The asymmetric component involves applying the Diffie–Hellman protoc...
In this paper, we come up with three secure chaos-based stream ciphers, implemented on an FPGA board, for data confidentiality and integrity. To do so, first, we performed the statistical security and hardware metrics of certain discrete chaotic map...
Privacy-preserving of medical information (such as medical records and images) is an essential right for patients to ensure security against undesired access parties. This right is typically protected by law through firm regulations set by healthcare...
Images with sensitive content require encryption for storage and transmission. Symmetric schemes can cipher them, while an asymmetric cryptosystem can distribute the secret key safely. For this reason, we propose a dynamic hybrid cryptosystem, which...
Group communication enables Internet of Things (IoT) devices to communicate in an efficient and fast manner. In most instances, a group message needs to be encrypted using a cryptographic key that only devices in the group know. In this paper, we add...
Correlations were found between the aerodynamic efficiency and the mean and fluctuating quantities in the far wake of a wall-to-wall SD7003 model and an AR 4 flat plate. This correlation was described algebraically by modeling the wake signature as a...
Elliptic curve cryptography has gained attention due to its strong resilience against current cryptanalysis methods. Inspired by the increasing demand for reliable and secure cryptographic methods, our research investigates the relationship between c...
The line graph of a graph G is another graph of which the vertex set corresponds to the edge set of G, and two vertices of the line graph of G are adjacent if the corresponding edges in G share a common vertex. A graph is reflexive if the second-larg...
This review is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of modern forms of information warfare in the context of digitalization and global interconnectedness. The work considers fundamental theoretical foundations—cognitive distortions, mass communi...
Substitution boxes are the key factor in symmetric-key cryptosystems that determines their ability to resist various cryptanalytic attacks. Creating strong substitution boxes that have multiple strong cryptographic properties at the same time is a ch...
With the growing demand for secure image communication, effective encryption solutions are critical for safeguarding visual data from unauthorized access. The substitution box (S-box) in AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is critical for ensuring non...
Broadly speaking, an adversarial example against a classification model occurs when a small perturbation on an input data point produces a change on the output label assigned by the model. Such adversarial examples represent a weakness for the safety...
Mixed-integer mathematical programming has been widely used to model and solve challenging optimization problems. One interesting feature of this technique is the ability to prove the optimality of the achieved solution, for many practical scenarios...
In this article, we propose decision diagram algorithms to extract minimal cutsets of finite degradation models. Finite degradation models generalize and unify combinatorial models used to support probabilistic risk, reliability and safety analyses (...
Aiming at the salvo-attack problem of multiple missiles, a distributed cooperative guidance law based on the event-triggered mechanism is proposed, which enables missiles with large differences in spatial location and velocity to achieve simultaneous...
The double random phase encoding (DRPE) system plays a significant role in encrypted systems. However, it is a linear system that leads to security holes in encrypted systems. To tackle this issue, this paper proposes a novel optical image encryption...
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